204 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, 



34. Parartocarpus H. Bn.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Arto- 

 carpus) ; male inflorescence axillary globose pedunculate ; bracts 

 few, inserted at top of peduncle, unequal short and forming a small 

 involucre under the base of the receptacle. Flowers crowded naked, 

 1-androus, intermixed with bracts thickened at apex ; filament short 

 erect ; anther sub-basifixed, 2-locular. Female flower . . . ? — A tree ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate ; stipules 2, lateral, very caducous ; ^ other 

 characters of Artocarpus,^ {Borneo.'^) 



35. Treculia Dcne.^ — Flowers polygamo-dioecious,^ capitate in 

 globose 1- or sometimes 2-sexual receptacles. Male calyx gamo- 

 phyllous, tubular or obconico-campanulate. Stamens 2 {Pseudo' 

 treculia '') or 3, 4 ; filaments erect, sometimes dilate {PseudotrecuUa), 

 inserted around small (or 0) rudiment of gynsecium; anthers in- 

 trorse or extrorse.^ Female calyx 2-4-phyllous, sometimes small (or 

 0) ; germen imbedded in foveoles of receptacle, 1-ovulate ; branches 

 of erect 2 -fid style stigmatose thick subulate recurved. Syncarp glo- 

 bose (sometimes wide) enclosing numerous carpels ; embryo of exalbu- 

 minous seed fleshy thick; cotyledons unequal; one much larger 

 incurved enfolding the other smaller straight ; radicle superior short 

 ascending.^ — Trees ; alternate leaves and other characters of Arto- 

 carpus ; capitules axillary, solitary or 2-nate ; flowers as in Atro- 

 carpus inserted and intermixed with bracts apically peltate or 

 glandular-fimbriate. {Trop. west. Africa}^) 



36? Bagassa Aubl.^i — Flowers dioecious; male...? Female 

 calyx subcylindrical ; sepals 4, thickly fleshy, valvate and counivent 

 in tube, obtuse at apex. Germen substipitate (of Artocarpus) ; style 

 lateral, afterwards 2 -fid; lacinise subequal or unequal linear-subulate 

 erect enclosed. Ovule descending anatropous ; micropyle extrorsely 

 superior. Fruit ^^ shortly stipitate obovately oblong drupaceous ; pulp 



1 Adansonia^ xi. 294. ^ H. Bn. Adansonia^ xi. 292. 



' Scars certainly not annular. ^ In T. acuminata H. Bn. {he. cit.), laterally 



' A genus of uncertain place, from its female or oftener extrorsely, and above subintrorsely 



flower being unknown, certainly very near Ar- rimose ; in the male capitules of T. africnna 



tosarpm, but quite distinct by its defect of male introrse, in the (sterile) anthers of the female 



perianth and involucre. syncarp extrorse and much shorter. 



* Spec. 1. P. Beccarianus H. Bn. loc. cit. ' " Cotyledons incumbent." (Dcnb). We 



* Trec. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 108, t. 3, have seen the radicle not at all incumbent, 

 fig. 86-99.— Bur. Prodr. xvii. 285. — Meyropeitis ^^ Spec. 2 (imperfectly known). Hook. f. 

 Welw. Herb. (Hook.). Bot. Mag. t. 5986. — H. Bn. Adansoma, loc. cit. 



^ Improperly said to be monoecious by De- n. 136. 

 CAisNE {loc. cit. not.) because some sterile male ^^ Guian. ii. Suppl. 15, t. 376. — Bur. Frodr, 



flowers were intermixed with the germens in xvii. 285. 



the female syncarp and imperfectly dissected by ^^ " Aurantii forma." (Atjbl.). 



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